/ world today news/ The Day of Letters will be celebrated with celebrations and official ceremonies throughout the country from the morning to the evening of May 24.
The largest procession will take place in Sofia and it will include the head of state Rumen Radev, the speaker of the parliament Dimitar Glavchev, ministers, people’s representatives, cultural figures and public figures, students and teachers and many residents and guests of the city.
The traditional procession to the monument of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius will leave at 10:30 a.m. and will reach the National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”, where President Radev will deliver a speech. A solemn water ceremony will also be held. An hour earlier in the Patriarchal Cathedral “St. Alexander Nevsky” His Holiness the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte will lead the prayer for May 24. The Patriarch will pray for the success of the students and all the workers of education, science and culture.
In the late afternoon, the center of Sofia will become a cultural scene under the open sky with the ceremony at which 24 Bulgarian cultural figures will become winners of the “Golden Feather” 2017 awards.
The golden brooches in the shape of a scribe of Classic FM radio, “Makta” gallery and “Canthus Firmus” will be awarded to the famous Bulgarian opera singer Stefka Evstatieva, the director Radoslav Spasov, the folk singer Yanka Rupkina, the conductor Bedros Papazyan, the actor Filip Trifonov, the actress Militsa Gladnishka, the journalist Zheni Marcheva, the composer Georgi Arnaudov and others. The mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, will also receive the “Golden Feather” award for active cultural policy and support of valuable projects in the field of arts. National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” will receive a “Golden Feather” for active activity and contribution in the field of education and culture.
And another important ceremony. On the day of our brightest holiday at the “Bulgarian Army” theater, for the 27th time, the “Askere Academy” Foundation will present its national awards for achievements in theater art during the past season. This year, the great Bulgarian playwright Konstantin Iliev will be honored with the grand prize for overall contribution to theater art “Askeer 2017”.
The gala performance is entrusted to the director Diana Dobreva, according to the script of Angel Elenkov, the scenography is by Nina Pashova, and Petya Dimanova is responsible for the musical picture.
In the evening, at 6:30 p.m., at the National History Museum in the capital, the president will host the traditional reception on the occasion of the Day of Slavic Education and Culture and Slavic Writing.
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